I was just wondering how most of you that are working on a RPG or any other game with NPC''s, how do you do the code for them. Do you just hard code the logic into the game. Like when you load a town map or whatever, do you have a place in the file to load like an NPC struct for each NPC in the town. And in this struct you might have things like
struct NPC
{
BYTE type; // like merchant, soldier, or normal townsperson
char* talk; // what the person says when you talk to them
// i know they could say different things depenindg on game situation but lets make this easy for now
bool walks; // do they walk around or stand still
int x, y; // position on the map;
};
or do you all use some kind of scripting language, and if you do then I would like to know how.
Is this method above a bad way to implement it, or is a scripting language the only way to go (I hope not). Because right now i really dont want to learn how to make a scripting language + interpreter + all the other stuff you need for it. Unless someone wants to help me out with this and make me one
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